Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
CDTG, August 17: the $3.00 wall, one halt, and $3.30
CDTG opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.30 through one halt during the session.
What happened
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A wall at $3.00
CDTG had closed at $2.09 the day before. It opened at $2.17 and dipped to $2.06 at 9:35. By 9:42 it hit $2.64. From 9:40 on, a big offer sat at $3.00, above the price.
Stop It's 9:49. CDTG is at $2.74, up from a $2.17 open. A large offer has been sitting at $3.00 since 9:40. Would you buy here?
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Buyers ate the wall. It peaked near 22K shares. At 9:50:03, 17K shares traded at $3.00 in under a second, and the wall was gone.
One halt, one reopen
The jump tripped a volatility pause. At 9:50:22 it was halted at $3.18. During the pause a 51K-share bid built at $3.00. It reopened at 9:55:22 at $3.19, but that was the top of the minute. The $3.00 bid was pulled by 9:55:35. The stock fell to $2.53 that minute.
The high and the fade
It bounced to $3.25 by 9:59. Then it spiked to $3.30, the day's high, in the 10:04 minute. Two minutes later it was back at $2.65.
A midday push stopped lower, at $3.17 at 12:59. It closed at $2.80, on about 2.29M shares.
What to take from it: Here the $3.00 wall broke in a second, but the bid that replaced it was pulled at the reopen.
Replay CDTG's day
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The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 3.8% at $2.17, then ran from the open to the high of $3.30 in 34 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.13 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.17, up 3.8% from the previous close | |
| 9:42 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.09 | |
| 10:04 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.30 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.80, 15.2% below the high |
The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $2.09
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.17
- Gap at the open
- +3.8%
- Pre-market high
- $2.13 at 4:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.30 at 10:04 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.81
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.80
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +34.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.08 at 7:41 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.31 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 58,910
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 8.0×
- Float
- 2.84 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.02 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 17,604 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 682,389 in the first 30 minutes (29%), and 1.67 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (70%).
- Other days CDTG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on September 4, 2026.
- The next session, August 18, 2026, it was up 17.5% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:50 a.m. | 9:55 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 25.7% | $3.19, up 0.3% | down 2.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
Trade this day
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